The Golden Glow Motel is located on the town end of Rotorua's golden motel mile only 5 minutes walk to the CBD.
This is the best possible location so close to the city centre, shopping mall, restaurants & bars and is adjacent to a major 12 hour supermarket, butcher, fruit/vege/dairy market, and takeaways, Chipmunks and a gymnasium.
Golden Glow Motel has recently undergone major refurbishment which has lifted the property from a (self rated) 2 star to a 3++ star rating. All the units are freshly painted with new carpet and vinyl and most with new ceramic basins and tap ware etc. Golden Glow Motel is a very well maintained accommodation business in a high profile tourist city. It is ideally suited to a husband and wife partnership / first time or experienced operators and comes with a comfortable 3 bedroom owner's residence.
It is a firmly established motel in the middle market and attracts a healthy mix of tourism and corporate business. The business constantly out-performs the Rotorua average occupancy statistics.
North side view
The Golden Glow Motel offers 19 units in a variety of configurations to suit most guests:
2 x king bed studio unit sleeping 2 persons
2 x king bed and single bed studio units sleeping up to 3 persons
3 x queen bed studio units sleeping 2 persons
4 x queen bed and single bed studio units sleeping up to 3 persons
3 x one bedroom units - queen bed in bedroom and single in lounge - sleeping up to 3 persons
3 x one bedroom family units sleeping up to 4 persons
2 x one bedroom family units sleeping at least 6 persons
The motel can sleep 61 persons when completely full plus another 6 using foldaway beds. There is also a comfortable two bedroom flat on site which is long term rental currently returning $250 per week.
South side view
Motel Lease: There is no current lease as the property is owner operated. The purchaser may wish to write a new lease and sell the business.
Freehold (Land and Buildings): The property is owner operated and is for sale as a freehold going concern. The land and buildings will not be sold separate to the lease.
Thermal heating: All the units and the owners accommodation are thermally heated from a communally operated geothermal bore located on the motel site. This allows for fully self-controlled central heating and instant (on demand) mains pressure hot water for showers and spa pools.
Spa pools: All units, but one, have a private spa pool within each unit which is self filled and controlled.
Private spa pool
Kitchens: All units, but two, have kitchens with easy cooking facilities, two ring hob and microwave (excluding stove). Each unit has a fridge, table and chairs, toaster, crockery and cutlery plus tea and coffee making facilities. All units but 2 have pots and pans.
Bathrooms: All units have abundant hot water in pressurised showers. Two units have the shower over the spa pool. Each bathroom has a separate toilet and vanity. All the vanity units were recently replaced and all fitted with new basins and mixers.
Furnishings: All units have adequate tables, upholstered chairs and a mix of relaxing armchairs and sofas, with new drapes and nets
The Golden Glow Motel is well appointed.
Low maintenance buildings: Motel units and the owners accommodation in the two level block are constructed from low maintenance concrete block walls with aluminium joinery and concrete tile roof. The single level units and upstairs flat are constructed in wood with hardy plank exterior, wooden and aluminium joinery with decromastic iron roof. All interiors walls have been freshly painted.
Parking: The motel is constructed around a courtyard providing off-street car parking - one car per unit. Parking for owners and the flat is off street behind fencing at the front of the motel.
A four camera digital security system monitors parking courtyard and owners parking area as well as reception entrance.
Office and Reception: The office and reception area is located in the main residence. Fittings include customer counter, computer, phone and fax machines. There is a Panasonic PABX (leased) which services all units.
Motel Laundry: The laundry is on the ground floor at the rear of the complex and comprises:
3 Fisher and Paykel washing machine
1 Maytag top loading washing machine
The motel does not use clothes dryers as there is an excellent thermally heated drying room which runs continually at no cost.
There is a full size oven in the laundry for guest use.
Linen Room: Ample storage for linen along with the clothes press and miscellaneous motel equipment.
A full list of all chattels, fittings, fixtures and equipment is available to interested purchasers.
Day to day management at the Golden Glow Motel
Business Hours: Monday to Sunday - 7.30 am to 9.30 pm.
Staff: The Golden Glow Motel is operated by the owner with assistance of four loyal cleaning staff who are employed on a casual, on-call basis. The motel has access to competent and reliable motel minders who enable the owners to take regular breaks and holidays.
TV and Videos: The motel has the usual 5 free to air TV channels along with a local visitor information channel and 5 sky channels.There is also a collection of videos that are played through another channel on request. All Television sets and the video player are leased from DTR and are all in excellent condition.
Promotion and Advertising: The motel has prominent signage across its frontage and a large illuminated sign. Other promotion comes from its own Web www.goldenglowmotelrotorua.co.nz page and brochure with location map. Advertisements are placed annually in AA Guides, Jason's and a brochure rack with Tourism Rotorua.
The motel has is listed on Wotif and Ratestogo, BookPayStay, Vianet, AA and Holiday Guide with others being added. These sites have generated good bookings and is growing.
Owners Residence The Golden Glow Motel provides its owners with a comfortable residence. Downstairs comprises an open plan lounge / dining area, kitchen, laundry and separate toilet. Upstairs has bathroom and separate toilet, plus 3 bedrooms.
Owners accommodation
The master bedroom has been sound proofed with sound absorbing Gib board (2 layers), sound reducing ceiling batts and secondary glazed windows resulting in a room that shuts out most night time street noises. Relatively new, good quality, carpet and vinyl has been laid throughout. There is a private courtyard at the rear of the kitchen which has been tastefully planted. Trellis work topping the fence provides additional privacy and security.
Call Lance or Yvonne Now on (64) 07 3486183 (day or evenings)
About Rotorua
Rotorua is a tourism icon in New Zealand. It was the birthplace of New Zealand tourism, way back in the 1840s when it first attracted visitors to the Pink and White Terraces and in 1901 became the first place in the world to have a national tourism department. Today, Rotorua hosts approximately 3.0 million visitors each year. Approximately 70% of all visitors to Rotorua are of domestic origin and 30% of international origin. Of these 3.0 million visitors, approximately 1.6 million are overnight visitors and 1.4 million visit only for the day. Domestic visitors contribute most to Rotorua’s visitor numbers, but the greatest growth is from the international markets. Australia, North America, UK/Ireland and North Asia are major international markets for Rotorua.
Rotorua is the premier visitor destination in New Zealand. The area's early tourism development centred around its unrivalled geothermal and volcanic attractions, lakes and unique Maori ure. More recently, growth has been fuelled by strong international visitor growth, and has led to increased accommodation capacity and refurbishment of existing properties. All of Rotorua's major visitor attractions have also upgraded their facilities and increased their staff to meet major changes in the market, and additional upgrades are planned. A number of smaller scale attractions have also been developed, which has broadened Rotorua's visitor appeal. The recent $35 million physical transformation of the Central Business District has also had a major impact on the attractiveness of the shopping and lakefront areas to visitors.
